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Murder suspect charged

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Luigi Mangione the suspect arrested in connection with the killing of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in Manhattan last week as he walked to a shareholder’s meeting, appeared to be a potentially untraceable 3D gun- a firearm without serial numbers, that can be assembled at home, copied from Hollywood movie The Day of the Jackal. He was arrested on Monday at a McDonald’s in Altoona, Pennsylvania, and was allegedly in possession of a gun, bullets, multiple fake IDs and cash. Law enforcement sources say ”Deny, Defend, Depose, the three D’s of insurance” tactics used by companies to reject payment claims … Continue reading Murder suspect charged

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Homebase collapses into administration

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Homebase owner Hilco who had been looking to sell the struggling retailer, was not successful in finding an outright buyer. Homebase in the meanwhile has collapsed into administration putting 2, 000 jobs at risk. Plymouth-based tycoon Chris Dawson’s The Range, owner of Homeware chain is buying 70 stores and the brand, safeguarding 1, 600 jobs. The remaining 49 stores and the head office, are in the hands of Teneo the administrator. Homebase CEO Damian McGloughlin said the past three years had been incredibly challenging for DIY stores. Restructuring specialist Hilco, which rescued music chain HMV in 2013 Homebase recently completed … Continue reading Homebase collapses into administration

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Top ten richest people gained $64billion after Trump victory

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The Rich became richer as top ten richest people gained $64billion after Donald Trump victory. Elon Musk, the world’s richest person whose wealth leaped from $26.5 billion to $290 billion last Wednesday after Donald Trump’s victory. Jeff Bezos wealth also grew from $7.1billion a week after defending his decision to withhold the Washington Post’s endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, another Trump supporter, saw his net worth rose $5.5billion. Former Microsoft executives Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, former Google executives Larry Page and Sergey Brin and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett all Trump supporters also gained. … Continue reading Top ten richest people gained $64billion after Trump victory

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Trump triumphs after spectacular fall

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Republican Donald Trump elected US President to return to pinnacle of global power with is America First agenda, after defeating Democrat  Kamala Harris in historic comeback. Trump takes key swing states in decisive win and his Republican Party gains control of the Senate as millions of Americans voted to give him a second chance. Trump secured 279  (71, 315, 400 votes) to Kamala Harris 223 (66,231, 247 votes). Four years after leaving White House, Donald Trump is set to move back in, The election campaign which saw him survive two assassination attempts and his original opponent President Joe Biden dropped … Continue reading Trump triumphs after spectacular fall

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Where care is in the age of sexual equality

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Over the past 60 years family life has changed dramatically with greater choice and autonomy, especially for women and a more equal domestic sphere have brought great gains for human freedom. David Goodhart, argues there have been losses and unintended consequences too – in family instability, children’s declining mental health, and ever-rising demands on the welfare state and social care system. Sharp falling birth rates also present major challenges. Especially in the bottom half of the income spectrum, the costs are now too high. The Care Dilemma argues that we need a new policy settlement that supports gender equality while … Continue reading Where care is in the age of sexual equality

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Chinese transformation

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Want to know how an impoverished and terrorised China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s  and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. When Mao Zedong died in spring 1977, the new culture commissar busied himself publishing the fifth volume of the late Chairman’s selected writings. The paper that had been waiting in storage for this moment had gone mouldy, there was not enough electricity to run the printing presses, the typographers work at a snail’s pace, terrified that any misprints would result in death. The episode ois … Continue reading Chinese transformation

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Gang who smuggled £200m of cocaine in banana boxes convicted

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Bulgarian national, Petko Zhutev, Ghergii Diko and Bruno Kuci were convicted after pleading guilty to smuggling in cocaine with a street value of about £200, into the UK inside a shipment of bananas from South America. Erik Muci and Olsi Ebeja were found gujlty of their involvement following a trials at the Old Bailey. On Friday Judge Rebecca Trowler KC adjourned sentencing to November 11. Police cracked the case believed to be one of the biggest drug seizures ever seen in the UK- and how undercover officers posed as lorry drivers to foil the gang in February 2021. The cocaine … Continue reading Gang who smuggled £200m of cocaine in banana boxes convicted

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Extraordinary Prime Minister

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Unleashed by Boris Johnson, is about people, policies, mistakes and triumphs from the man who would be world of the world claims many triumphs and also his mortal failings in this political memoir of Westminster power politics. Johnson a biographer of notoriously dubious merit, has turned to autobiography significantly  earlier than he would have liked, as the country could no longer believe  word he has to say. He used his bantering wit like a magician you almost forget that he isn’t revealing anything. Born on June 19,, 1964, Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson is a British politician and writer who … Continue reading Extraordinary Prime Minister

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Media credulousness fuelled Trump’s rise

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Donald Trump do not involve paying hush money to a porn star or conspiring to subvert 2020 election, and his notion that he is a self-made billionaire who personifies the American dream.  Born to a rich father who made him the beneficiary of his own highly lucrative investments, Trump received the equivalent of more than $500 million today via means that required no business expertise whatsoever. Drawing on over twenty years’ worth of Trump’s confidential tax information, including the tax returns he tried to conceal, alongside business records and interviews with Trump insiders, New York Times investigative reporters Russ Buettner and Susanne … Continue reading Media credulousness fuelled Trump’s rise

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Antitrust claim against six water companies In England threatening environmental health

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Six water companies in England have been accused of overcharging customers between £800mn and £1.5bn by under-reporting the scale of their sewage pollution, in a case that may pave the way for customers to receive hundreds of millions of pounds in refunds. Competition Appeals Tribunal yesterday lawyers for Carolyn Roberts, a former professor and environmental consultant, accused the privatised companies of abusing their monopoly position to mislead regulators over the amount of sewage they were discharging into rivers since 2015. Roberts alleges, that, as a result, Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, Anglican Water, Severn Trent, Northumbrian Water and United Utilities, were … Continue reading Antitrust claim against six water companies In England threatening environmental health